Holst: Chamber music Ensemble Arabesques (with SooJin Anjou, piano)
Lightness, grace and youthful exuberance (four of the five works on this CD are from Holst's earlier years) with the excellent Sextet in E minor for winds and strings receiving its world premiere recording. Great buy!
I'd obviously never paid much attention to this album cover photo because until this evening I'd always assumed Jackie was standing on the bow of a sailing vessel, but upon closer inspection (after 15 years of owning this CD), it looks more like a bridge or an industrial art sculpture or something. Anyone know where this shot was taken?
Undercurrent's a good one, Josh. I used to have it on LP (gone now) but never got around to picking it up on CD. Reading up on Hank Mobley recently I was shocked to discover that he died at 55 - way too young. Then when I saw the cover of this album I realized that several of the performers passed prematurely: Mobley at 55, Kenny Drew at 64, and Sam Jones at 57. Freddie Hubbard made it to 70, but even that seems too soon. A bad luck ensemble, apparently, although their music's excellent.
Killer album by the Duke. Breakneck jazz fusion, new-agey solo piano stuff, funky soul jazz... This is the only album of his I've heard so far. Any others as good or better?
Their debut album which I listen to every other year or so. Hearing it now, I should be ashamed at not hearing the David Bowie influence. Love the world weary, cabaret-singer-style vocals and cynical lyrics and I always have.
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